Quotes by Cooley, Charles Horton

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no on >>

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts >>

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an adv >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other >>

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pl >>

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. >>

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

Cooley, Charles Horton